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Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
Map of the Belgian Congo, 1914. This is a list of place names of towns and cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which were subsequently changed after the end of Belgian colonial rule. Place names of the colonial era tended to have two versions, one in French and one in Dutch, reflecting the two main languages of Belgium. Many of these ...
The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) [a] was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
This gives an implicit exchange rate of US$2 per zaire. Between 1971 and 1976, the zaire was pegged to the U.S. dollar with an exchange rate of Z0.50 to US$1. 12 March 1976 to 31 October 1978: Zaire pegged at parity with the special drawing rights. 1 November 1978: Zaire devalued to 0.95 SDRs (−5%). 6 November 1978: Devalued to 0.81 SDRs (− ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been known in the past as, in chronological order, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, the Republic of the Congo-Léopoldville, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Zaire, before returning to its current name the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2]
Following the end of the Congo Crisis in 1965, Joseph Kasa-Vubu was deposed and Mobutu seized complete power of the country and then renamed it Zaire. He sought to Africanize the country, changing his own name to Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, and demanded that African citizens change their Western names to traditional African names ...
This is a list of renamed places in the Republic of the Congo ... [1] Ponta Negra → Pointe-Noire; See also. Lists of renamed places; List of city name changes ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo The Congo River forms much of the border between these two countries. The Congo Basin comes from the river. Congo or The Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river Democratic ...